Tolle's breakdown and other things.. part 2?

Question

[cont'd from part 1]

4) If meditation is to quiet the mind--to avoid provoking extra neurotransmitter activities and to eventually alter the brain "metabolism"--it is definitely not good to read, to write, and to become a writer, lawyer, educator, engineer... etc? It's nearly impossible to go through everyday's busy life while having to keep the brain immobile.

5) When a child is born, part of the growth and living a rich experience is to stimulate sensitivities; meditation seems to do the opposite. In vipassana, you do things very very slowly, it even got robotic. It doesn't make sense. So, once again, an arhat would be like a blank slate, and he's bad at argumentation because no words come to mind!!!!!!

6) SUPPOSE there's more than what meets the eye: suppose we have spirits! How would this change in brain structure *transfer* and imprint onto the spirit, for it to carry and manifest in its next life?

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Answer 1

4) Its actually suprisingly easy to immobilize the brain. Studies show there is less brain activity when a person watchs tv than even when they sleep. Reciting mantras also accomplish diminished brain activity. The only way to shut it off completely is death.

5) It makes perfect sense. Life has an inate desire to remain alive, and it takes time for experience to override the natural instinct.

6) If there's more than the physical, than the physical is coincidental. You might as well kill yourself rather than try to diminish your mind through meditation, unless your particular religion says suicide harms the spirit.

Answer 2

I never could get an answer to my questions until I could frame them well enough to answer them myself. I hope you will forgive me reframing the question as: Is there anything to spirituality and what is all this new age stuff. Sorry that's all my limited attention span, this late in my night, could come up with. The idea is that we are not our mind, but have a mind. Science has reduced us to a machine and rightly so, almost. The body runs itself. If we could hear it we would hear what it needs. We can get in tune like that, although no one takes the trouble. The mind is similar. It really does the thinking, we mostly interfere. We are pretty much programmed and science wonders if we have free will. We get it by intuition to get around what is essentially our programming, but then to, not tell the mind, but ask it. This is backed by science. Spirituality, for our purposes here, is to connect to the inner understanding or sense, as the mind already adds the outer and inner senses to all knowledge and experiences we have collected and makes assesments with the knowledge and experience it has more intimately. By comparing trillions of images it notes discrepancies and can tell us what's up, if we ask it. We mostly collect data and external experiences to feed it. It breaks down in to the left hemisphere, who's job it is to ask questions, the side to which we are mostly atuned, and the right hemisphere, that answers questions, like a quantum computer, and we are the monkeys running the machine, the language science uses to explain the situation or at least the interpreters of the research use. So with all those assertions you've but to read up on emotional intelligence and intuition to prove or test it for yourself, the best proof. Shutting down the conscious mind is simply to access the super computer. Of course there are other ways to put it, that's only my particular way of relating to it. As far as I know Tolle's greatest work is his latest. His enlightenment came at the beginning of his career after a bout with depression unless you know something I don't.